Senior Backend Engineer - Platform
Role Overview
The Senior Backend Engineer will focus on building and maintaining core platform services that facilitate development across web, mobile, and backend systems at Lemonade. This senior-level role involves collaborating with engineers and tech leads to establish best practices, driving developer efficiency, and ensuring service stability within a distributed microservices architecture. The impact of this role is significant as it supports the productivity of multiple development teams.
Perks & Benefits
This position offers a fully remote work setup, promoting a flexible work-life balance. The culture at Lemonade encourages adaptability and efficiency, fostering a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive. Opportunities for career growth are available through hands-on work with modern infrastructure and close partnerships with DevOps teams, enhancing both technical and professional development.
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Platform team in Tel Aviv. You'll build the infrastructure that powers our entire engineering organization, accelerating how our teams ship features that millions of customers rely on. This role is perfect for someone who loves solving complex distributed systems challenges and creating tools that make other developers' lives better.
In this role you'll:
Build core platform services that support all Lemonade development teams across web, mobile, and backend systems
Design and maintain robust APIs for distributed microservices architecture using TypeScript, with Rust experience as a major plus
Collaborate with staff engineers and tech leads to establish platform standards, patterns, and best practices across the engineering organization
Own service stability and communication between systems, implementing both synchronous and asynchronous patterns at scale
Drive developer efficiency initiatives by creating tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that eliminate friction for product teams
Work hands-on with AWS infrastructure including Kafka, RabbitMQ, EKS, SQS, Lambda, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Pulumi
Partner closely with DevOps teams to ensure seamless deployment, monitoring, and scaling of platform services
What you'll need:
Adaptability, drive, and an efficiency mindset — we believe these matter most in human-AI collaboration
5+ years as a software engineer with strong focus on backend systems and platform development
Deep experience with distributed systems and microservices, including building and maintaining APIs that serve multiple teams
Hands-on expertise with modern infrastructure — AWS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, EKS, SQS, Lambda, Helm, Terraform, or Pulumi
TypeScript proficiency with Rust experience strongly preferred
Platform or core team background — you've built infrastructure that supports multiple development teams, not just end-user features
Developer empathy — you understand what makes engineers productive and can translate that into platform solutions
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